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E.B. Huntington's History of Stamford on Google Books

Elijah Huntington's

History of Stamford : Connecticut, from its settlement in 1641, to the present time, including Darien, which was one of its parishes until 1820. Stamford, Connecticut: Published by the Author; 1868

is now available as Google Book.

New Book on the Civil War: This Republic of Suffering

Books / Sunday Book Review
New York Times

Death’s Army

By GEOFFREY C. WARD

Published: January 27, 2008

Drew Gilpin Faust, the president of Harvard, has written an extraordinary new book about the enormous loss of human life in the Civil War — 620,000 men, North and South.

First Chapter: ‘This Republic of Suffering’ (January 27, 2008)

THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING
Death and the American Civil War.
By Drew Gilpin Faust.
Illustrated. 346 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. List Price $27.95.

New at the library: “Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692”

The society recently received a copy of Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692  (New Narratives in American History, Oxford University Press)  by Richard Godbeer, Professor of History at the University of Miami.  It discusses the events around the witch hunt of Elizabeth Clawson in Stamford in 1692.

From a book description at Amazon.com:   Few events in American history are as well remembered as the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.  But there was another witch hunt that year, in Stamford, Connecticut, that has never been examined in depth.  Now Richard Godbeer describes this “other witch hunt” in a concise, fascinating narrative that illuminates the colonial world and shatters the stereotype of early New Englanders as quick to accuse and condemn.

The society was able to provide Professor Godbeer with  information from our archives and publications.  More information.

The book may be viewed at the research library at headquarters on High Ridge Road.  It is also available in paperback.  The Ferguson Library has copies at the Main and Harry Bennett branches.